Thomas Paine (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Paine was the son of a Quaker small farmer and staymaker in Norfolk, England, who always acknowledged the influence of Quaker principles on his political ideas. At thirteen he entered his father’s business, but after three years went briefly to sea. By the late 1750’s he was again working as a staymaker. In 1761 he was appointed a government excise-tax agent, only to be fired four years later for making fraudulent reports. A letter of apology got him reinstated, however, and he got a new position in Lewes. Paine’s pen first got him into trouble in 1772,...
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